Before we begin, you should know that I have long harbored some affection for Ralph Nader. In 2004, when I was just starting to get seriously interested in politics, I saw him speak. Nader seemed to me to be the best candidate for President. He cared about and talked about issues that the other two […]

A REtroVIEW (or simply retroview) is an idea I have been kicking around for some time. It is, at the lowest-level, a review of something old. More importantly, it is a review of something old which has long-standing personal importance. That is, it’s a review of a book you always loved, a movie you always […]

We were about to watch The Departed. “This is a great excuse to review something,” I said to myself. And so that’s what I was going to do. But when it was over I said to myself, “What am I supposed to write?” The movie is too recent for it to be socially acceptable to […]